Legal Opinion
Yvonne Pinkney v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 8, 1966No. 19925_1PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Appellant was indicted for second degree murder and convicted of manslaughter. She alleged trial court error (1) in admitting in evidence appellant’s prior convictions of disorderly conduct, 1 vagrancy 2 and soliciting prostitution 3 ; (2) in admitting into evidence a knife found in the patrol wagon some time after appellant was a passenger therein; (3) in charging the jury with respect to decedent’s arrest for assaulting a police officer; and (4) in permitting the prosecutor to question a key defense witness regarding prior inconsistent statements, which the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Charles M. Luck v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- District of Columbia v. ClawansSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Schick v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Campbell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
- Willie Lee Stewart v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Thompson v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1988
- William J. Gass v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- John I. Brown v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
- Dixon v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1972
- Alfred Dallago v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
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